Celebrities of Tamil film industry lined up to pay homage to the veteran filmmaker who passed away two days ago

Veteran director Rama Narayanan, who passed away due to cardiac arrest couple of days ago, is perhaps one of the most respected and loved filmmaker of Kollywood. It was the respect that he holds in the industry that made the K-town celebs to flock to pay their homage to the legendary filmmaker.

His body was flown from Singapore for the last rites. This gave the opportunity for film stars and politicians alike to offer their condolences to Rama Narayanan’s family and see their beloved director for one last time. DMK patriach M Karunanidhi and his son MK Stalin were present in the mourning and so were many Tamil celebs like musical maestro Ilaiyaraaja, directors P Vasu and Ameer Sultan, actor Sathyaraj and his son Sibiraj, yesteryear actor Sivakumar, veteran actor Nasser, director Sundar C and his wife Khusboo, comic actor Kovai Sarla, comedians like Senthil,Goundamani,Ganja Karuppu and Mailsamy, dance choregrapher Kala, actor Udhayanidhi Stalin and Power star Dr Srinivasan.

The passing away of the legendary director left a great void in film industry. Bollywoodlife wishes the master of devotional films and comedies, late Rama Narayanan to rest in peace.

When this southern filmmaker announced his mega project with a famous light-eyed beauty from B-town, everyone believed it was indeed a casting coup, apparently not

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s publicists have denied that the actor is working in P Vasu’s next film on Kalari warrior. The filmmaker who has directed stalwarts like Rajinikanth in the filmChandramukhi was supposed to direct the ex Miss World in a film titled, Aishwaryavum Aayiram Kakkavum.

Vasu had talked about this movie in great detail, in an interview the filmmaker had said, “Aishwarya was really impressed with the script. She will be seen in a never seen before powerful role. She will essay a Kalari fighter in the film and for the same she will undergo special stunt training. Big visual effects giants are being considered. Animatronics expert from France are being hired for the visual effects in the film, which will be shot in exotic locales of North Indian and some important portions in Cambodia.”

With Ash’s PR denying these reports, looks like this will be yet another inevitable long wait to catch this beauty on 70mm. However, it also makes us wonder if P Vasu was lying about Ash in his project just to garner some publicity? Or did this film deal fall out due to certain issues?

There have been a lot of speculations about the Bachchan bahu’s comeback film

A few days back we reported that Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is ready for an action-packed comeback. We had also got Ash’s look in P Vasu’s film as a Kalari fighter. However, the Bachchan bahuhas issued a statement refuting confirmations of her doing the film. The statement says,

” This statement is in reference to the press release/ rumoured attachment of Ms. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to Mr. P. Vasu’s film which has been doing the rounds very strongly today in the media and the industry. With due respect to all the professionals concerned , I would like to state that this was one among the several scripts/ ideas she has been approached for but there have been no confirmations at all. This ” press release” came as a huge surprise to all of us…… An email clarifying this erroneous ‘press release’ has already been received by our office from the concerned parties.

Kannada film veteran Ravichandran will reprise the role that Mohanlal played in the original

Tamil filmmaker P Vasu, who has been chosen to helm the yet-untitled Kannada remake of recent Malayalam blockbuster Drishyam, says it was senior actor Ravichandran who referred his name.

“I loved the film, but even before I thought of remaking it Tamil or Telugu, I realised that the remake rights were sold and even its principal casting was finished. However, when a production house called me to direct the Kannada version of the remake, I was up for it,” Vasu said.

Vasu says it was Ravichandran who referred his name to the producers. ”Ravi had referred my name to the producers. We’ve known each other for a long time and he wanted me to direct it. He was also prepared to direct it himself if I was unavailable. But luckily, I’m not occupied with any other project,” he added.

A family thriller, Drishyam tracks the story of a father’s efforts to cover up a murder committed by his family. The film has emerged as the biggest hit in Malayalam filmdom.

Mohanlal and Meena played the lead roles in the original. “We will start casting process soon. We are planning to take the film on floors by March,” said Vasu, who is known for such works as Chandramukhi, Walter Vetrivel and Sethupathi IPS.

Vasu has directed Kannada films such as Kathanayaka, Jayasimha and Jeevana Jyothi in the past. Drishyam is now being remade in all three southern languages. While Kamal Haasan will be playing the lead in its Tamil version, Daggubati Venkatesh will feature in the Telugu version.

The Raanjhanaa actor says she is not doing Hollywood project Curry in Love with Nick Nolte

Refuting rumours that she has signed a Hollywood project titled Curry in Love with Tamil filmmaker P Vasu, Bollywood actor Sonam Kapoor said Tuesday that she hasn’t been approached for any English film as of now. “The news about me part of an English film is just a rumour. Nobody has approached me for a Hollywood project,” Sonam told reporters in Chennai.

It was reported Sonam Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Tamil actor Vijay and Hollywood actor Nick Nolte have been roped in to feature in Curry in Love, which was to be helmed by P Vasu, known for Tamil films such as Chandramukhi and Kuselan.

But the actress would love to act in any language film. “Language has never been a barrier for me. I would love to do films in other languages, but I don’t want to end up playing similar roles. If I get a challenging role to play, then I would be more than willing to work in any language,” she said while promoting her upcoming Hindi romance Raanjhanaa with Tamil actor Dhanush.

Raanjhanaa, directed by Anand L Rai, is dubbed in Tamil as Ambikapathy. While the Hindi version is scheduled to release on June 21, the Tamil version will release a week later.